Home and cooled after a busy weekend

The three of us spent the weekend in Bracebridge for Christine’s family’s annual retreat. We left Friday and returned today. We had a great time with Jonas. He kept us all laughing with his silly antics. One of the cute things he does now is try to feed his food and drink to his stuffies. It’s just adorable to watch.

Saturday morning I arose early and went for a run through beautiful Bracebridge. There were several hills which made it one of the most challenging runs to date. I didn’t run today because we spent most of it travelling and Christine left for work shortly after we returned home. However, I am planning a morning run tomorrow in which I intend to stretch it out to 41 minutes. I’m increasing my distance by 10 per cent a week. On Aug. 10 I am going to run in a 5K race here in Timmins. I suppose I’m in training for the race.

On Saturday afternoon we took a boat cruise on beautiful Lake Muskoka. Jonas not surprisingly was getting a bit restless sitting at our table so I took him to the play area, which basically consisted of a box of toys in a corner. Jonas and I were the only two white people on the bottom floor of the boat. The rest of the people were very friendly tourists from Jamaica. At one point they handed out gifts - applause ensued for the people who received the gifts. As a boat full of Jamaicans were applauding so was Jonas, who was very interested in what was going on. Again, this was very cute.

On Sunday night I met my parents at Casino Rama for the Crosby Stills and Nash concert. The show was about what I expected. I’d seen CSNY twice before, but mostly because of the "Y" factor.

Here are some pictures from the weekend.